It happened that one day when Pavi was sixteen, Graves just couldn't take the abuse the suffered at the hands of Rotti. Pavi was outside his father's office building after a beating crying. Graves walked over to him. "Hey, kid, are you okay?" He asked, sitting down next to him.

"S…Si…" He replied, wiping away his tears and nodding.

"How old are you?" He asked, pretending he didn't know. It might be a little creepy to tell the kid he'd been watching him since he was a baby.

"Sixteen." Pavi replied.

"I saw what happened in there." Graves said softly.

"But-a we were all-a the way up in-a his office, how did-a you…?" Pavi started to ask.

"Climbed the wall." Graves said bluntly, leaning back against that wall, folding his arms across his chest and staring at Pavi.

"But you…I mean…how?" He gasped.

"How about a magic trick, kid? Would that make you feel better?" He asked.

"Not-a really, but I wanna to see." Pavi replied.

Graves snapped his fingers and a can that had been on the ground seconds ago was now in his hand.

"How'd-a you do that?!" Pavi gasped.

"Well, I snap my fingers to distract you, then I flit." Graves grinned.

"Flit?" Pavi asked.

"It means I move so fast you can't see me move." His grin widened.

"Can I flit?" Pavi asked.

"No, not yet anyway." Graves shook his head. "It's a vampire thing."

"V…V…V…Vampire?" Pavi gasped, falling off the box he'd been sitting on and staring terrified up at Graves.

"Relax, kid, I'm not going to hurt you, that's not our style. Normally if you weren't you, the worst I would do is knock you out and take a sip of your blood painlessly, but as you're you, I'm not going to do that." Graves explained.

"Why not just-a because I'm me?" Pavi asked.

"Well, I'm not supposed to tell you this for another five years, but as long as I don't act until that time, what the princes don't know won't hurt them, Pavi, you're going to be the savior of the vampire race." Graves grinned.

"R…Really?" Pavi gasped.

"Really, kid." Graves winked. "Now I'm off for tonight, but if you ever need anything, just call out your window and I'll be there, I follow you, I'm your guardian."

"Wow…."Pavi blushed. He had a guardian and such a good looking one too.

As soon as Graves left, Pavi headed home. Luigi, however, had been watching Pavi talking to Graves from the window. He was quite jealous and hurt. He reasoned with himself that Pavi was just talking to that handsome stranger, not planning to betray his own brother for him. Luigi calmed himself down thinking this and walked out the door, bumping into someone.

"Watch where the fuck you're going!" Luigi barked.

"Such language." The stranger said smoothly. "I apologize, though, Mr. Largo."

Luigi looked the man over, he was strange looking. For one thing, he was purple; for another thing, he had red eyes to match his long dark red hair which was pulled back into a ponytail. "What do you want, freak?" Luigi asked.

"I want to speak with you, Mr. Largo, my name is Gannen Harst and I want to make you a more important man even than your father, at least, to my people." The man-Gannen-said.

"I'm listening." Luigi said, cocking an eyebrow.

"You see, Luigi, I've been watching over you secretly since you were five years old, you are said to be the savior of my people. Today, your twenty-first birthday, is the day you join the ranks of night walkers known as The Vampaneze."

"Vampaneze? Like a Japanese vampire? Ha-ha, you're a fucking loon." Luigi sneered.

"Don't be so quick to turn me down, Luigi, you could have so much power, so much knowledge and all it would take was a quick ceremony. Nothing big, just a sharing of blood. You could even protect your little brother from your father if you did this." Gannen suggested honestly.

"I could protect Pavi?" Luigi said, thinking it over. His little brother was everything to him right now, if there was a chance to save him pain and humiliation, Luigi would take it. "Alright, fine, say I go along with this, what do I have to do?"

"Come with me." Gannen said, leading him back to the hotel room he'd been using as a base. He held out his hands and asked Luigi to do the same. Luigi followed suit. Gannen pricked his own fingertips, then Luigi's, then before Luigi could protest, he pressed their fingertips together. "Don't move, it'll only be a minute."

"W…What's happening to me?" Luigi gasped, he could feel Gannen's blood pumping into his body through his fingers.

"You're becoming a Vampaneze, we are the noble blood cousins of the vampires, we have different beliefs though, we believe in preserving the souls-memories, thoughts, feelings, likes, etc-of our victims by draining them entirely of their blood. Vampires are not evil nor ultimately our enemies, they simply believe that it is evil to kill when feeding. You will now need to occasionally kill and drain a human being for sustenance now that you're a Vampaneze." Gannen explained.

"Wait…What if I hurt Pavi?! What if he gets mixed up in all this?!" Luigi shouted. "Why the fuck would you not explain what I was getting myself into before you pumped your motherfucking blood into me!?"

"Calm down, Pavi will not be harmed, anyway in a few years, his blood will be poisonous to you anyway, there's no point in worrying." Gannen continued calmly. "Secrecy is paramount to this, for if you are discovered as one of us, you will be killed by some wayward vampire hunter. A vampire will not touch you; we have a shaky sort of peace treaty with them for the time being. Kill no one important and kill only when you must, that means only when you need to feed."

"I actually, quite honestly, kill so many people a day in fits of rage that it won't matter." Luigi admitted.

"You'll have to learn to control that, we Vampaneze are not mindless killers." Gannen frowned.

"Yeah, good luck with that, if there's nothing else, I'm going home to tell Pavi." Luigi said, starting to walk off.

"No! You can't tell him, not yet, at least." Gannen gasped.

"Okay…Fine…" Luigi gritted his teeth. "I won't tell Pavi." And with that, he left.